Berlusconi’s family suspends payments to the young women who participated in his parties

2023-11-03 22:31:00

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi He regularly paid the young women who participated in his parties called “Bunga Bunga”, but Since his death his family decided to suspend financing.

For more than a decade, 20 young women received a monthly check of 2,500 euros and some lived in apartments belonging to Berlusconi’s real estate empire, the Italian media reported. Corriere della Sera.

All the women of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian “il Cavaliere”

According to Berlusconi, who died this year, these gifts were intended to compensate them for the damage to their reputation caused by their appearance in the billionaire’s trials linked to the allegedly licentious parties he organized at his residences.

Berlusconi always insisted that they were elegant scenes.

Silvio Berlusconi

The decision of the Berlusconi family

Following the magnate’s death in June at age 86, The Berlusconi family decided to suspend payments and evict the young women they now consider undesirable, according to the newspaper.

One of Berlusconi’s lawyers, Federico Ceccano, declined to affirm or deny reporting on this story. Berlusconi was tried for six years, accused of bribing interested parties to lie about the nature of his attendance and performance at his parties, before finally being acquitted in February.

Silvio Berlusconi died: a life of sexual and political scandals

That acquittal was the culmination of a long legal battle that began in 2010 when Berlusconi, then head of government, was accused of abuse of power by protecting a young Moroccan nightclub dancer, Karima El-Mahroug.

The young woman, known by her stage name Ruby, had been arrested for theft, but Berlusconi intervened to free her, falsely claiming she was the niece of Hosni Mubarak, then president of Egypt.

The following year, Berlusconi was accused of having paid Ruby, who was 17 in 2010, for sex. Initially sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison, he was finally acquitted in March 2015 by a higher court.

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